Prickly pear cactus in bloom.
Prickly pear cactus in bloom.

The Core Dump

The Core Dump is the personal blog of Nic Lindh, a Swedish-American pixel-pusher living in Phoenix, Arizona.

[By Nic Lindh on Sunday, 30 March 2014]

Desert rose

Flowering cactuses are a beautiful sight.

Most of the year Phoenix is a sun-blasted, bleak moonscape wilting in a heat that actively tries to kill everything living.

But March, ah, March is fantastic, with eternal shorts-and-t-shirt temperature and the flowering of the cactuses. It’s wonderful to see these tanks of the flora open up to sprout bright flowers for just a few days.

You can watch the picture above and many more in high resolution in my Sonoran Yard Flickr set.

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